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Soviet Tanks in Manchuria 1945: The Red Army's ruthless last blitzkrieg of World War II by William E. Hiestand
RRP: $16.76$12.05A new illustrated study of the devastating, but little-known, Soviet armored blitzkrieg against the Japanese in the last weeks of World War II, and how it influenced Soviet tank doctrine as the Cold War dawned. Although long overshadowed in the West... -
Tank Hunter: World War One by Craig Moore 9780750982467
RRP: $25.80$19.70The First World War's fierce battles saw the need to develop military technology beyond anything previously imagined: as exposed infantry and cavalry were mowed down by relentless machine-gun attacks, so tanks were developed. Here author Craig Moore... -
The Caucasus 1942-43: Kleist's race for oil by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $21.92$16.09Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad, but this volume tells the other, equally important half of the story of Fall Blau (Case Blue). Learning from their experiences during the sweeping advances... -
The True Story of the Christmas Truce: British and German Eyewitness Accounts from World War I by Anthony Richards
RRP: $25.79$19.22'One of them shouted "A Merry Christmas English. We're not shooting tonight." . . . [then] they stuck up a light. Not to be outdone, so did we. Then up went another. So, we shoved up another. Soon the lines looked like an illuminated fete.'... -
A Long Long War: Voices from the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969-98 by Ken Wharton 9781906033798
RRP: $25.74$23.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033798Author Ken WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars by Stephen Bourne
RRP: $20.63$16.32In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort... -
Firefighting the Blitz: Fire Service Memories by Aylmer Firebrace CBE, KPM
RRP: $32.25$23.61War was coming. Everyone knew that confrontation with Nazi Germany was inevitable and that London was likely to be a prime target of Hitler's bombers. So, in January 1939, Aylmer Firebrace, the Chief Officer of London Fire Brigade, was seconded to the... -
British Light Infantryman vs Patriot Rifleman: American Revolution 1775–83 by Robbie MacNiven
RRP: $20.63$15.21Fully illustrated, this book assesses the origins, equipment, and fighting styles of the irregular warfare specialists fighting on both sides during the American Revolutionary War. Amid North America's often forested, broken, or rugged terrain,... -
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for World War II by Jorg Muth 9781574415339
RRP: $28.32$19.67In Command Culture, Joerg Muth examines how the United States Army and the German Armed Forces selected, educated, and promoted their officers in the crucial time before World War II. German officers came from a closed authoritarian society but received... -
World War I Battlefield Artillery Tactics Dale Clarke 9781782005902
RRP: $19.34$16.45As the First World War bogged down across Europe resulting in the establishment of trench systems, artillery began to grow in military importance. Never before had the use of artillery been so vital, and to this day the ferocity, duration and widespread... -
PROSPER: Major Suttill's French Resistance Network by Francis J. Suttill 9780750989374
RRP: $14.18$10.93In May 1940 Francis Suttill was commissioned into the East Surrey regiment of the British Army. He was later recruited by the SOE, and after being trained during the summer of 1942, Suttill was chosen to create a new resistance network in northern... -
As We Were: The First World War: Tales from a broken world, week-by-week by David Hargreaves 9781913532369
RRP: $129.00$109.42Fought between 1914 and 1918, World War One - The Great War - was the most titanic and devastating conflict the world had yet seen. Detailing the course of the war week-by-week and the intimate accounts and experiences of soldiers and civilians alike, As... -
MiG Alley: The US Air Force in Korea, 1950–53 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
RRP: $19.34$14.13Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force... -
Elegy: The First Day on the Somme by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $25.80$20.07On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible... -
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks 9781787302150
RRP: $25.80$17.42Bestselling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna, to explore Italy's past and present.In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's... -
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - Their Untold Story by Judy Batalion
RRP: $25.80$18.51A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands'A fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis . . . The individual tales of these courageous young women are... -
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History by Norman Mailer
RRP: $12.89$9.44October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is Norman... -
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 by Louis Barthas
RRP: $19.34$17.32The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was... -
Napoleon Paul Johnson 9781842126509
RRP: $12.89$7.93A short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule.'Written with his customary verve and certainty' Andrew Roberts, SUNDAY TELEGRAPHWritten with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious... -
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
$23.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316159197Author Frances FitzGeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume One: North Africa, June 1940 - January 1942 by Christopher Shores
RRP: $64.50$47.50It is now more than 40 years since "Fighters over the Desert" was published, and nearly as long since this was followed by "Fighters over Tunisia". Both volumes have long been out of print and collectors' items, but, despite much prompting, Christopher... -
The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation by Burger, Adolf 9781399019156
$21.50One of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War was the German attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the post-war... -
Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes. Geraint Jones 9781529000405
RRP: $24.50$18.34Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war - every scary, exciting moment - and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.'If you could choose... -
Blackjack 33 by James Donahue
RRP: $11.60$7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804117647Author James C. DonahueFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
The Origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and Military Documents by Annika Mombauer
RRP: $32.25$29.39Annika Mombauer's essential source reader translates, cross-references and annotates a vast range of international diplomatic and military documents on the origins of the First World War. It collects together documents which are newly discovered or were... -
The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost by Lester W. Grau
RRP: $42.51$41.63The War in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called ""the Soviet Union's Vietnam War,"" a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, elusive, and ultimately unbeatable Afghan guerrilla force (the mujahideen). The hit-and-run bloodletting... -
Painting Wargaming Figures Allied Forces in Northwest Europe, 1944 45: British and Commonwealth, US and Free French by Singleton, Andy 9781399005623
RRP: $21.92$16.92Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces Antony Beevor 9780857051950
RRP: $16.76$11.39Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th... -
Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 2: From Glory to Defeat 1942-1945 by Jean Louis Roba
RRP: $25.79$18.71Eighty years after its creation, the Luftwaffe is still one of the most fascinating forces in the history of aviation. A companion to Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1, which covered the victory years from 1939 up to Spring 1942, this volume with nearly 400... -
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love by Laurie Marhoefer
RRP: $29.66$26.21In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld's... -
Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance by Frank McDonough
$72.28The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt -- with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in... -
November 1918: Triumph and Tragedy in the Final Days of WW1 Gordon Brook-Shepherd 9781448217182
RRP: $25.80$19.23The account of the Great War portrayed in this book spans the last hundred days of the conflict; from the surprise blow struck by the British at Amiens on 8 August, down to the signing of the Armistice which ended the war three months later. For the... -
Rearming the RAF for the Second World War: Poor Strategy and Miscalculation by Phillips, Adrian 9781399006248
RRP: $32.25$23.09When the RAF rearmed to meet the growing threat from Nazi Germany's remorseless expansion in the late 1930s, it faced immense challenges. It had to manage a huge increase in size as well as mastering rapid advances in aviation technology. To protect... -
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith
RRP: $16.76$12.05'This exciting and provocative book blows apart misconceptions about the Russian past' Lara Douds, Times Higher Education Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and... -
The Ninja, The Secret History of Ninjutsu: Ancient Shadow Warriors of Japan Kacem Zoughari 9784805314043
RRP: $19.34$12.96Here, for the first time, is an in-depth, factual look at the entire art of ninjutsu, including the emergence of the ninja warriors and philosophy in feudal Japan; detailed historical events; its context in the development of other schools of martial... -
Belgian Waffen-SS Legions & Brigades, 1941-1944: Wallonie, Wallonien, Flandern & Langemarck by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: $15.47$11.17From the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940, Flemish recruits from northern Belgium - considered by the Nazis to be 'Germanic' - were accepted individually into Waffen-SS units. From Hitler's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, additional recruits... -
British Armoured Divisions and their Commanders, 1939-1945 Richard Doherty 9781848848382
RRP: $32.25$23.25A total of eleven British armoured divisions were formed during the 1939-1945 war but, as this highly informative book reveals, just eight saw action. In 1940 only 1st Armoured Division faced the overwhelming German blitzkrieg and it was in the North... -
Panzergrenadier Divisions 1939–45: The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide by Chris Bishop 9781838863524
RRP: $29.66$20.34Illustrated with detailed artworks of Wehrmacht vehicles and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Panzergrenadier Divisions, 1939–45 is the definitive study of the equipment and... -
The World Crisis Volume II: 1915 by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: $33.53$30.46The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following... -
The Final Archives of the FüHrerbunker: Berlin in 1945, the Chancellery and the Last Days of Hitler by Paul Villatoux 9781612009049
RRP: $38.69$27.45In November 1945, two French officers secretly entered the Fuhrerbunker, the air raid shelter near the Chancellery in Berlin. The bunker was the last home of Adolf Hitler, the background of the last months of his life, and the war, where he married Eva...